here is a map this is according to one study to other resources i have seen they all say the oldest are in europe.
This is where the guy got his info from. U can see the R1* is found in Europe and west asia just they found more in west asia. Also R1a1a* which is ancestral to the Indo European branch was only found in Europe. I would not trust these small studies as much they dont have as much info plus they have way more european samples than any other area. U cant ignore that Indo iranien culture originated in the steppes and Idno iranien R1a orignated in the steppes also Indo European culture spread from the steppes.
u could be right about R2a starting in west asia but i still doubt. But Indo European languages did not spread from west asia possibly started there and then spread to the steppes but after that it all came fro the steppes.
If that map is accurate (it doesn't appear to include that many samples), it tells the following story:
- R1a* originated (matured?) somewhere around the fertile crescent. It participated in the assembly of the "Neolithic package" in Central Anatolia (9,000 BC) and the subsequent spread of this package along the Mediterranean coasts (from 7,000 BC). It spread further along the Rhone valley into central France, where it participated in the Michelsberger Culture (4,600-3,600 BC) that spread from the Paris Basin via the Rhine to the Weser and Western Bavaria, and from 3,800 BC on colonised the British Isles.
- R1a1* originated somewhere NW of the fertile crescent, either on the Armenian Plateau or in areas that are now submerged by the Black Sea. It was constituting (though not the dominating) part of the Neolithic expansion along the Danube that from 6,000 BC on established the LBK in Central Europe. Two LBK samples from the Middle Elbe have been determined as P* (too deteriorated for further breakdown). From 4,100 BC, they participated in colonialisation of the Lower Elbe and Southern Scandinavia (Funnelbeaker culture). Another part spread around the Northern Black Sea, participated in the Cucuteni, Maykop and Yamna cultures and ultimately re-joined the distant LBK cousins north-west of the Carpathians (Globular Amphora Culture, from 3,100 BC). Celtic and East Germanic migrations then spread them further into France, Northern Italy and Northern Spain.
- R1a1a* originated near the old LBK heartland on the Central Danube (Vienna-Budapest) and took part in colonising the Alps (Mondsee Culture 3,900 BC, Baden Culture from 3,600 BC). They formed part of the Urnfield, Hallstatt and La Tene Cultures; Celtc migrations brought them to Gaul, Celtiberia, Britain, Northern Italy and Northern Greece.
I have no idea whether that story fits to TMRA dates - if not, feel free to correct me.
Burial mounds are complex structures with internal chambers. Within the burial chamber at the heart of the kurgan, elite individuals were buried with grave goods and sacrificial offerings, sometimes including horses and chariots. Kurgans were used in the Ukrainian and Russian Steppes but spread into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the 3rd millennium BC.
That view is outdated. Recent Danish and German excavations have re-dated (pre-)Funnelbeaker Kurgan type burial mounds (wooden burial chambers, individual burials of males, together with stone axes and arrowheads) to the early 5th millennium BC. They spread from the Danish isles southward, by some 100-150 km/ century. Below is the Baalberge burial mound, which lent its name to the central TBK Baalberge Culture (3,800-3,100 BC) around the Elbe north of the Harz mountains.
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The first Central Euopean finds of domesticated horses and wagon burials (ox-drawn) date to the Salzmünde Culture (3,300-3,100 BC) on the Middle Elbe. The burial context (earth pits filled with large numbers of ceramic sherds) is similar to the contemporary Baden culture on the central Danube. The Salzmünde Culture (Horse & cart) was violently destroyed by the Baalberge Culture (Kurgans). Subsequently, a mix of various burial styles emerged in the Elbe-Saale region that included "French-style" elongated stone cists, "Totenhütten" (dead huts) with wooded or slate-covered roofs, earth graves, urnfields, and re-cycling of older TBK Dolmen.
Burial mounds reappear in Eastern Central Europe with the Corded Ware (2,800-2,200 BC). They have parallels, but also significant differences to Pontic Kurgans:
- No wagons / traction animals,
- Only individuals, no "chief with subordinates"
- Female graves equally represented (with jewellery & pottery)
- W-E orientation of the corpses, instead of N-S orientation as in Eastern Europe.
There may have been some cultural exchange with the Steppes, but significant population turnover is unlikely for the a/m differences, and also as CV continued to use many of the older grave sites described above.